Sentence examples for beat ahead of from inspiring English sources

Staying a beat ahead of the audience takes a huge amount of verbal dexterity.

Playwrights are supposed to have their finger on the pulse, to be one beat ahead of the rest of us.

Watching such familiar classic films, you may feel the movie has become its own tribute act, the audience hitting the punchlines one beat ahead of the performers.

In the end, with Mr. Barak's hand on his elbow, Mr. Arafat crossed the threshold one beat ahead of the Israeli prime minister, who constantly says that "it takes to two to tango" for peacemaking to work.

Her avid hunger kept her a beat ahead of everything - Rossant immediately grasped the truth of a talk about city life given by an unknown hack, Jane Jacobs (afterwards the mother of postmodern urban planning); while before Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, Rossant had taken jobs as translator and teacher to pay for help to raise a family of four.

This company can seemingly do no wrong and constantly reinvents itself to stay one beat ahead of the trend.

"Dave and that generation were around, a couple of beats ahead of me, and I learned from them".

This time movie and television studios were several beats ahead of the F.B.I., which exposed the 11 suspected members of an undercover Russian spy ring only last month, long after Angelina Jolie's movie, "Salt," about a C.I.A. operative accused of being a Russian double agent, was in the works.

The Wall Street Journal gave the show a negative review, calling it "an imitation heart-warming British working-class musical with a gay angle and a maudlin ending.... Kinky Boots is its own spoiler alert, the kind of musical in which you recite the dialogue a half-beat ahead of the actors.... [the score] sounds like... "Cyndi: The Deservedly Forgotten Late-'80s B-Sides".

In a supposed attempt to combat spoilers and the kind of obsessive theorizing that untangled last season's twist mid way through the season, Nolan and Joy announced that they would be willing to release a video spelling out all the major season two narrative beats ahead of time.

He sings with a jazzman's feel for rhythmic play, laying back behind the beat, rushing ahead of it, bending, distending, and cutting short his raggedy notes.